Barriers limiting dentists' active involvement in smoking cessation

Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-102

  Watt, Richard G ^a   McGlone, Pauline ^a   Dykes, Joanna ^a   Smith, Melvyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Braintree and Halstead NHS Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers; Dentists; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; DENTIST; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; DENTAL STAFF; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; DENTISTS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENERAL PRACTICE, DENTAL; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 13744249937     PISSN: 16021622     EISSN: 17579996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3290/j.ohpd.a9210     Document Type: Article

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